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Congress shares responsibility with the president for trade policy, yet Congress lacks the infrastructure and expertise to set objectives and monitor the administration’s actions. Moreover, because ...

It was a normal post-Christmas day in Wallace until gunshots rang out. Some who heard the gunfire didn’t worry at first. Perhaps, it was a hunter in the surrounding mountains, a car backfire or ...

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and ...

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Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly been restricted to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is ...